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Again, more anecdotes, not actual statistics. I don't doubt that you have had and continue to have these terrible interactions. But the statistics show that cars have at least 8x the rate of this behavior on average. Maybe we just don't notice because it's been so normalized, but the statistics don't show that ill behaving cyclists are any worse than the worst drivers.
Any time I walk in a city I see a cyclist do something brain dead and dangerous. Every time I see a cyclist I see someone running a red light or stop sign. I do not see someone do something brain dead and dangerous every time I drive a car. I do not see someone running a red light or stop sign every time I drive a car.
I am aware of the existence of catastrophically bad drivers, I've seen videos online. I've never seen one in real life.
I've seen catastrophically bad cyclists many times.
I see catastrophically bad drivers every time I drive. Running stale yellows, not understanding how stop signs work, literally every single highway merge at 70% the speed of highway traffic, a nice no signal jersey slide right in front of me, driving recklessly quickly through residential neighborhoods
Aren't personal anecdotes fun?
Catastrophically bad and regular bad are not the same thing.
You can't compare a half assed stop at a stop sign in a car to blowing through a stop sign or red light at full speed on a bike.
Yeah the former is common for cars, but the latter is common for bikes and not cars.
I don't know where you live that cyclists blow through red lights on the regular, but it sounds like the laws of physics should take care of that eventually. Unless you're talking about them doing it where there's clearly no traffic, in which case what's the problem? What's the danger? Are you just mad they get to and you don't?
They don't "get to." They are required to stop, just as I am (at least where I live). Some cars chose to disobey this, most to all bikes do. One of the reasons we have this as a requirement is because people can't be trusted to determine when it is safe to blow through stuff.
It's not safe and it is illegal and bikes break the law at much higher rates than cars do (with the exception of highway speeding for the obvious reasons).
Why do cars get a pass for breaking the law for speeding? Because speeding on the highways is relatively safe?
Treating a stop sign as a yield while on a bike is also relatively safe, and is explicitly legal in many areas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop
I frequently see cyclists idaho stop, breaking the law in a relatively safe way. I see them straight up blow through lights at full speed a lot less frequently, about the same as I see cars.
And every car infraction is at least 10x more dangerous to others due to size and speed.
I also don't see cars on the sidewalk driving aggressively towards pedestrians outside of rare one off events.
Anyone who has ever been around a random cyclist in any setting for any length of time has noticed irresponsible or dangerous behavior that would get a driver pulled off the road. Cyclists are more safe because they are smaller and slower but e-bikes have changed this calculus greatly.
If you bike you may imagine that you are not one of the problematic ones and this may in fact be true, but I've seen plenty of people who are too irresponsible and poor to own an actual vehicle, or are delivery drivers imported from the third world who think they are in the thunder dome.
False equivalency with highway speeding is insufficient to neutralize this common sense understanding that can be established walking around a city.
Any day I walk in a city for a significant amount of time I see a bike nearly hit a pedestrian multiple times. It is rare to see that happen with a car. If bikes are less dangerous it is not because of a failure of effort.
Also for cyclists it is one off events, and cumulative danger is vastly greater with cars/trucks given that in collision they will squish pedestrian - while cyclists may cause deadly harm to pedestrians but it is absurdly rare
(for life-altering but not deadly harm - cars on sidewalks also cause greater danger than cyclists)
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